Dr. Michael Strong, a scientist with Western's Robarts Research Institute and Distinguished University Professor in Clinical Neurological Sciences at the…
It started with a 44-year-old woman with solitary fibrous tumor, a rare cancer seen in only a few hundred people each year.By looking at the entire DNA from…
“Danger!” signals TLR9, the molecular sensor, whenever it recognizes bacterial or viral genetic information, specifically DNA. Instantly, the immune system…
Neuroscientists face a similar problem since decisions made by the brain always involve many neurons. Within a collaboration of the University of Tübingen and…
Exposing pregnant mice to low doses of the chemical tributyltin – which is used in marine hull paint and PVC plastic – can lead to obesity for multiple…
It is well known that violent adults often have a history of childhood psychological trauma. Some of these individuals exhibit very real, physical alterations…
Several research groups have developed experimental vaccine approaches that protect nonhuman primates from Ebola virus and the closely related Marburg virus….
An effort to develop software that unravels the complexities of how proteins fold is paying dividends in new findings on how they misfold, according to…
A new finding in neuroscience for the first time points to a developmental mechanism linking the disease-causing mutation in an autism-related disorder,…
Their findings appear in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine.Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation in the gene for…
A protein called NEDD9—which regulates cell migration, division and survival—has been linked to tumor invasion and metastasis in a variety of cancers….
To this end, a complex scientific process has been developed which has called into question a dominant paradigm amongst the scientific community with respect…
Halfway between bacteria and tree Together with colleagues from Sweden, RUB researchers have studied how the protein transport system of bacteria developed…
Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) have analysed for the first time all the proteins inside natural killer (NK) cells of healthy…
The paper, available in and featured on the front cover of the Jan. 16, 2013, issue of FEBS Letters, a journal of the Federation of European Biochemical…
January 13, 2013, Fujian and Shenzhen, China- An international research consortium, led by Fujian Agriculture, Forestry University (FAFU) and BGI, has…